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Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
5 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
7 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

All SDF messages from all domains visible in 1 SMU dashboard

Because the SMU source code in specified that the “Domain Name” or “Resource ID” is required, it is not possible to create a dashboard in which all SDF messages from all systems are visible. In our “traditional” environment, we now have our “own” ...
8 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Submitted

Please add the support of data feeds from IIDR (IBM InfoSphere DATA REPLICATION) SMF records to the product.

The product is important to our company's application support community, and users have been asking for these feeds to ZLDA so SPLUNK Dashboards could be built to monitor workloads, performance, and trends. We currently have these records assigned...
4 days ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When the debugger uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determi...
4 days ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Submitted

Complete control over the Topic name that IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics use to connect to Kafka

To day do CDP use a constant (-) in the Topic when connecting to Kafka. If this constant do not match your organisations naming standard is there nothing in CDP to solve that problem. An option to remove the constant is needed to have more control...
4 days ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

Automated collection of disk capacity data from GPDS - Maybe by writing entries to SMF.

In GDPS today we have a brilliant function to show the current DS8K pool usage related to capacity. GDPS panel named VPCPLCS6 and VPCPLCS7) Showing numbers for usable capacity, provisioned capacity, SGC used, SGC provisioned and much more.The pane...
13 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

CUZCLOUD active task queue persistence across restart.

In case of a restart of the CUZCLOUD STC the active task queue is cleared. This doesn't permit to close safely the STC in case of planned outage of one of its components (z/OS, network, storage, HW) or unplanned events. At the restart of the STC w...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Submitted

Increase the Maximum Size of the IRLM Lock Entries from Its Current Maximum of 1024 MB lock entries.

Currently we have a large number of false contentions within our IMS data sharing group, and we have increased the LTE value to 256 which causes us to reach the Maximum size of 1024mb.(256 * 4 Byte Entry = 1024mb) We need to be able to increase th...
5 days ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Submitted

Provide an appliance form factor for zVDT

Shared Services Canada (Government of Canada) is planning to use ZVDT for thousands of developers. This would allow for easier management of the ZVDT images with their hybrid cloud solutions
6 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

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